At noon on a very wet Valentines Day, a lively group of seventh graders from the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Dorchester entered a lecture hall in Byerly Hall to…
Harvard sophomore Jennifer Botterills overtime goal gave Harvard (15-4-3) a 4-3 win over Northeastern in the championship game of the 22nd-annual women’s Beanpot Tournament at the Bright Hockey Center. Botterill,…
The front-runner in this years presidential campaign is no one at all, says a new survey conducted by the Kennedy School of Governments Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and…
Sheila Burke, executive dean of Harvards Kennedy School of Government, has accepted a post as Undersecretary for American Museums, Programs and National Outreach at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.…
One of the grand mysteries of language concerns the nature of vowels and consonants. Are they really different entities processed separately by the brain, or just artificial labels developed for…
The Harvard Native American Program and the Askwith Education Forum at the Graduate School of Education will present artist Melanie Yazzie in a lecture and slide show titled “Holding the…
At its ninth meeting of the year the Faculty Council received a report from Nancy Maull, Administrative Dean; David Zewinski, Associate Dean for Physical Resources and Planning; and Vincent Tompkins,…
A nonspeaking, walk-on role in the season finale of the new hot TV show The West Wing, lunch with NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, a hike on the East Boston Greenway…
John P. Holdren, the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, has won the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for his work to…
Conrad K. Harper and Herbert S. Winokur Jr. were named on Monday to join the seven-member Harvard Corporation. Both will assume their positions as Fellows of Harvard College by the…
Claudia Huettner can switch off deadly leukemia in mice simply by putting an antibiotic in their drinking water. Her system even causes regression of advanced stages of the cancer. When…
While other funding sources balked, the American Cancer Society decades ago funded Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery Judah Folkmans research into ways to cut off the blood supply to cancerous…
The problem defied Einstein, but Harvard physicist Juan Maldacena is using black holes and tiny cosmic strings to help figure out the “Theory of Everything.” A newly minted Harvard physics…
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is tackling the controversial issue of genetically engineered food by hosting a one-day conference titled, “Genetically Modified Foods: Should You Be Concerned?” Co-sponsored by…
Rahim Oberholtzer remembers his shock when Maury Povichs voice came over his headset telling him he had won more than a million dollars. It was $1.12 million, to be precise.…
Desan Receives Legal History Award The American Society for Legal History has awarded Professor of Law Christine Desan the Erwin C. Surrency Prize for the best article published in volume…
Portfolio Review Extended The Harvard Neighbors Art Committee has extended its annual review for Harvard-affiliated artists interested in applying to exhibit during the 2000-2001 academic year. Faculty and staff with…
A raspberry has only 8 percent as much genetic material as you or me. That’s expected; raspberries aren’t too smart or complex. But an onion isn’t very complex either, and…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Feb. 5. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden Street. Jan. 31:…
Although more African-Americans and Hispanics are buying homes in municipalities surrounding Boston, these buyers are concentrated in a small number of communities and are thus segregated from white homeowners, according…
The Harvard University Art Museums are bringing New York to Cambridge this month, with an exhibit at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of the artistic and social documentary photographs of…
” Big Three” rivals Harvard, Yale, and Princeton tangled poolside last weekend, as mens and womens swimming and diving meets yielded mixed results at Blodgett Pool. The Crimson men emerged…
On the occasion honoring the 100th Jacob Wendell Scholar, a member of the Wendell family, Andy Thomas, recorded some of the scholarships history as well as his own impressions of…
A alleged campus thief and convicted trespasser was back in Cambridge District Court this week, after attempting to elude Harvard University Police by fleeing cross-country. Andre Stuckey was led off…
Children dying of cancer experience substantial suffering in the last month of life, according to researchers at two prominent cancer hospitals in Boston. Not all such suffering is necessary, say…
Richard Heck sits in his office, his lanky frame sprawled on a worn armchair. A half-finished bottle of Coke rests on the seat of a wooden chair beside him. Nothing…
The Peoples Lawyer: A to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham” will be held at the Kennedy Library in Boston from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 6. The tribute will…
What would Martha Ballard think of DoHistory.org? Would she be puzzled that so much fuss was being made about a woman from rural Maine who died almost 200 years ago,…
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